I live in a place called Royston in Hertfordshire. Home of the Royston Crow – a rare crow with a grey hood. Needless to say much is made of this bird: our local newspaper is called the Royston Crow and there are many subtle references (which is nice) to crows around the town. We do have quite a lot of crows too, but they seem to be of the common variety and few people know about the the rare bird.

Anyway, I really love one of the pics a crow that you have on this site and hope that you will not mind if I make a copy and use it on my web consultancy site (URL not ready yet). Please let me know if you mind and I’ll remove it before I publish it.

Very best wishes and happy twitching (not sure if that’s an English term, but it’s one of endearment for people who have an obsessive passion for watching birds).

Nik Dadson

]]>By: Doug Baumanhttp://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2007/12/01/i-hear-crows/comment-page-1/#comment-99
Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:38:13 +0000http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2007/12/01/i-hear-crows/#comment-99Every morning on my drive to work, I stop at a traffic light at the intersection of Washington Blvd. and Frankstown Ave., and I hear literally thousands of crows perched in the trees above my car, or flying all about! One of these days, if there is enough light, I would like to take a picture of these noisy yet fine birds.
]]>By: marthahttp://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2007/12/01/i-hear-crows/comment-page-1/#comment-51
Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:33:55 +0000http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2007/12/01/i-hear-crows/#comment-51A flock of crows is called a murder.
]]>By: Peggy Hookeyhttp://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2007/12/01/i-hear-crows/comment-page-1/#comment-50
Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:55:14 +0000http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2007/12/01/i-hear-crows/#comment-50Again, a great piece of writing. I have read the book, Crows and Ravens by Mazluff and Angells and see them as colorful and appealing, the bird world’s equivalent of the common man. Always glad to know a little more. Thank you for passing on your observations.
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